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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Today's Word Misuse
In beauty copy today, a semi-homonym switch:
Environmental stressors can wreck havoc on your skin.
"Wreak" is the word she needed.
It actually might be a good thing, to be able to wreck havoc. Once the havoc is damaged, wouldn't things get better?
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I'm a copyeditor by trade, a wife and mom by practice, and a reader by obsession. I love to think about how words work, and why.
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